


FACTS CONCERNING THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL. 



To THE Members of the House of Representatives: 

Sirs: The Hon. Wm. P. Borland circularized the House 
to the effect that the Grand Army of the Republic, The Loyal 
Legion, and the American Federation of Labor were in favor 
of a road to Gettysburg as a Memorial to Lincoln. 

Mr. Borland is in error as to the real facts. 

Inquiry at the headquarters of The Loyal Legion and Amer- 
ican Federation of Labor disclosed nothing that puts these 
organizations on record in favor of such a roadway. 

Inquiry at the headquarters of the Grand Army of the 
Republic shows that a small minority of that organization 
did indorse "the general idea" of a roadway to Gettysburg 
as "one form of a memorial," but it is safe to say that that 
organization will take action at its next annual encampment 
"in favor of a suitable Lincoln Memorial Building in the 
nation's capital." The same sentiment is strongly in evidence 
in The Women's Relief Corps, Ladies of the D. A. R., Daugh- 
ters of Union Veterans and other patriotic organizations of 
women. 

Against the statement of Mr. Borland that The American 
Institute of Architects is the only national organization sup- 
porting the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall, the facts are, that 
two hundred and five local and national clubs, civic, municipal, 
historical, architectural, landscape, and engineering societies 
and organizations throughout the country have expressly en- 
dorsed the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall, or the Park Com- 
mission Plans which place it there. 

The Senate of the United States on December 13, 1912. 
with only one vote in the negative, approved the findings of 
the Lincoln Alemorial Commission, placing the Memorial on 
the MALL. 



FACTS CONCERNING THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL. 



To THE Members of the House of Representatives: 

Sirs: The Hon. Wm. P. Borland circularized the House 
to the effect that the Grand Army of the Republic, The Loyal 
Legion, and the American Federation of Labor were in favor 
of a road to Gettysburg as a Memorial to Lincoln. 

Mr. Borland is in error as to the real facts. 

Inquiry at the headquarters of The Loyal Legion and Amer- 
ican Federation of Labor disclosed nothing that puts these 
organizations on record in favor of such a roadway. 

Inquiry at the headquarters of the Grand Army of the 
Republic shows that a small minority of that organization 
did indorse "the general idea" of a roadway to Gettysburg 
as "one form of a memorial," but it is safe to say that that 
organization will take action at its next annual encampment 
"in favor of a suitable Lincoln Memorial Building in the 
nation's capital." The same sentiment is strongly in evidence 
in The Women's Relief Corps, Ladies of the D. A. R., Daugh- 
ters of Union Veterans and other patriotic organizations of 
women. 

Against the statement of Mr. Borland that The American 
Institute of Architects is the only national organization sup- 
porting the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall, the facts are, that 
tzvo hundred and five local and national clubs, civic, municipal, 
historical, architectural, landscape, and engineering societies 
and organizations throughout the country have expressly en- 
dorsed the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall, or the Park Com- 
mission Plans which place it there. 

The Senate of the United States on December 13, 1912, 
with only one vote in the negative, approved the findings of 
the Lincoln Memorial Commission, placing the Memorial on 
the MALL. 



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The government-appointed Fine Arts Council, the Perma- 
nent Commission of Fine Arts, and The Lincoln Memorial 
Commission, composed of President Taft, Speaker Clark, 
Representatives McCall and Cannon, and Senators Cullom, 
Wetmore, and Martin, and Col. Cosby indorsed its location 
on the Mall. 

The Washington Chamber of Commerce, The Washington 
Board of Trade, The Federation of Citizens Associations and 
fourteen individual local associations have passed resolutions 
favoring placing of the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall. 

The leading commercial organizations of Rhode Island, 
Indiana, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Ohio, Texas, California, 
Colorado, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Michigan, 
Iowa, Kentucky, 'New York, and Missouri, and noticeably 
through patriotic motives the Chamber of Commerce of 
Harrisburg (close by the field of Gettysburg) and the Board 
of Trade of Philadelphia, have passed resolutions favoring the 
Lincoln Memorial being in the Nation's Capital — on the Mall. 

Against this array of endorsers there is not a single organi- 
zation counted on the other side — with the exception of the 
two road associations. 

The design of the "imitation Greek temple down by the 
brewery," as Mr. Borland chooses to call the Lincoln Memo- 
rial, was approved by the most eminent authorities, not only 
in this country, but abroad, as the most imposing form of a 
great memorial to the great Lincoln. 

Of the hundreds of thousands of visitors who come to 
their Capital annually, practically all visit the great memorial 
to Washington. The records of the War Department show 
that for the fiscal year ending June, 1911, over 160,000 took 
the time to go to the top of the Monument. 

Is it not fair to assume that the vast majority would prefer 
to view the Memorial to Lincoln at the same time that they 



By 'Traasfer 
JAN 13 1912 



see the Washington Monument — less than a quarter of a mile 
apart ? 

Note may be made here that the ground on which it is pro- 
posed to place the Lincoln Memorial is now owned and con- 
trolled by the Federal Government. 

The memory of Abraham Lincoln does not need to be 
"rescued from oblivion," but the memorial to him should be 
one that has met with the approval of the highest authorities 
in the world. 

Respectfully submitted by 
Order of the Executive Committee of 
The Committee of One Hundred on the 
Future Development of Washington. 
Organized in 1910 by the sanction of the Chamber of Com- 
merce. 

Thomas Grant, 

Secretary. 



The Committee of 100 
ON THE Future Development of Washington. 



Glenn Brown, Chairman, 

Wm. E. Shannon, Vice-Chairman 

Thos. Grant, Secretary, 

Milton E. Ailes 

Chas. J. Bell 

Ira E. Bennett 

Emil Berliner 

Miss Mabel Boardman 

Scott C. Bone 

Chapin Brown 

D. J. Callahan 

Dr. Mitchell Carroll 
Frank G. Carpenter 
Wm. McK. Clayton 
Fred G. Coldren 
C. I. Corby 

E. H. Daniel 
John Dolph 
E. H. Droop 

H. Rozier Dulaney 
John Joy Edson 
Dwight L. Elmendorf 
Fred A. Epiery 
Wm. Phelps Eno 
Wm. John Eynon 
W. W. Finley 
W. T. Galliher 

E. C. Graham 
Julius Garfinkle 

Col. F. C. Goldsborough 
Wm. F. Gude 
Rev. Alfred Harding 
Frank W. Hackett 
Walter S. Harban 
Col. Robert N. Harper 
Chas. D. Hilles 
Rev. J. J. Himmel 
Wm. D. Hoover 
Chas. E. Howe 
Archibald Hopkins 

F. J. Haskin 
Hennen Jennings 
General John A. Johnston 
Col. W. V. Judson 
Louis Kann 

John B. Earner 

John C. Letts. 

A. Lisner 

L«;aac F. Marcosnn 

Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland 

James Rush Marshall 



Dr. James Dudley Morgan 
C R. Miller 

A. C. Moses 

Miss Leila Mechlin 
Dr. E. P. Mertz 
Clarence Norment 
Theodore W. Noyes 
Chas. D. Norton 
Frank B. Noyes 
Robert Lee O'Brien 
J. C. O'Laughlin 
Captain James F. Oyster 
Thomas Nelson Page 
Arthur J. Parsons 
Hon. M. M. Parker 
Hon. Henry Kirke Porter 
Rev. Wallace Radcliflfe 
Dr. Chas. W. Richardson 
Mrs. Chas. W. Richardson 
Hon. Cuno H. Rudolph 
Mgr. W. T. Russell 

B. F. Saul 

Montgomery Schuyler 
Albert Schulteis 

Rev. Thomas J. Shahan 
Mrs. W. Cummings Story 
Dr. J. B. Scott 
Dr. Frank Sev/ell 
James Sharp 
E. D. Shaw 
John Shughrue 
J. H. Small, Jr. 
Rabbi Abram Simon 

A. Leftwich Sinclair 
W. J. Starr 

Hon. Wendell Phillips Stafford 

E. J. Stellwagen 

Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton 
George Stuart 
George Oakley Totten 
Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth 

B. H. Warner 

Dr. Charles D. Walcott 

F. A. Walker 
Richard B. Watrous 
John L. Weaver 

Rev. W. R. Wedderspoon 
George W. White 
Mrs. S. A. Willis 
A. S. Worthingtcn 



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